THE PLEASANCE THEATRE TRUST
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Next accounts due
2026-08-31 (in 3mo)
Last filed for 2024-11-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-12-05 (in 7mo)
Last made up 2025-11-21
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£654K
-28.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£651K
-8.6% vs 2023
Employees
38
-7.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£61K
-508.4% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-11-30
| Metric | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £4,213,821 | £4,641,752 | |
| Operating profit | -£33,549 | -£138,066 | |
| Profit before tax | £15,012 | -£61,311 | |
| Net profit | £15,012 | -£61,311 | |
| Cash | £920,548 | £654,153 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £793,424 | £681,713 | |
| Net assets | £712,424 | £651,113 | |
| Equity | £712,424 | £651,113 | |
| Average employees | 41 | 38 | |
| Wages | £712,424 | £762,490 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-11-30 | 2024-11-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -0.8% | -3.0% | |
| Net margin | 0.4% | -1.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | -4.2% | -20.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 43.5% | 50.2% | |
| Current ratio | 2.34x | 1.85x | |
| Interest cover | -3.15x | -20.67x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Jeffrey Altman & Company
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“These financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis. The trustees are consistently reviewing the financial forecasts as well as the reserves position of the group and they consider that the Charity holds sufficient reserves to deem the going concern basis appropriate for the 12 months from the date of sign off of these accounts.”
Group structure
- THE PLEASANCE THEATRE TRUST · parent
- Pleasance Theatre Festival Limited 100%
Significant events
- “The year ending 30th November 2024 marked another successful and forward-looking chapter for The Pleasance Theatre Trust, with strong performance both artistically and operationally.”
- “The 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe celebrated 40 years of the Pleasance in Edinburgh.”
- “The Downstairs temporary theatre space has been sold to its third home at The Chichester Festival Theatre, where it opened as 'The Nest' in summer 2025.”
- “The year ending November 2024 was financially challenging for the Trust, and it recorded a financial loss of £61,311 - partially due to a marked reduction in the grants and donations that the Trust received.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
9 active · 14 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FAULKNER, John Richard Hayward | Secretary | 1995-12-04 | — | British |
| CLARKE, David Gordon Franklin | Director | 2026-04-02 | Mar 1971 | Irish |
| CORDEIRO, Jean Vianney | Director | 2026-03-10 | Dec 1992 | Canadian |
| HOUSE, Richard Michael | Director | 1995-12-04 | Sep 1964 | British |
| KARIA, Nikita | Director | 2023-02-22 | Jan 1996 | British |
| LLOYD-BARNES, Sharon | Director | 2019-07-18 | Aug 1966 | British |
| LOMBARDO, Holly | Director | 2026-04-02 | Feb 1977 | British |
| MARDLIN, Frederick James | Director | 2026-03-10 | Aug 1998 | British |
| WILLIAMS, Deborah | Director | 2020-09-30 | Jun 1969 | British |
Show 14 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| WHELAN, Jeff | Secretary | 1995-11-21 | 1995-12-04 |
| ATKINSON, Rowan Sebastian | Director | 1995-12-04 | 2002-01-30 |
| BERNAYS, Philip | Director | 1995-12-04 | 1996-09-16 |
| BOYD, Jennifer Louise | Director | 2019-06-18 | 2025-01-19 |
| BROWN, Alan David Gillespie, Dr | Director | 2011-06-14 | 2020-11-26 |
| GRACE, Victoria Ann | Director | 2017-06-13 | 2020-11-26 |
| GRAHAM, Letitia | Director | 2015-03-16 | 2020-12-01 |
| JOHNSON, David | Director | 2009-10-01 | 2018-01-08 |
| LEIGH, Andrew | Director | 1995-12-04 | 2022-07-30 |
| LUCAS, Jeremy Robert | Director | 1995-12-04 | 2022-04-21 |
| PURDON, John | Director | 1995-11-21 | 1995-12-04 |
| SIMON, Colin Terence Maitland | Director | 1996-12-09 | 1999-12-01 |
| TORDAY, Piers Francis | Director | 2003-01-22 | 2018-11-13 |
| WHELAN, Jeff | Director | 1995-11-21 | 1995-12-04 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 108 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-04-15 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2026-03-22 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-12-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-08-29 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-02-11 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-01-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-12-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-11-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2023-09-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2023-03-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2022-11-28 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-10-26 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2022-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-05-10 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2021-11-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2021-10-27 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2021-05-18 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 4
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-11-30 vs 2023-11-30
-
Turnover
+10.2%
£4,213,821 £4,641,752
-
Cash
-28.9%
£920,548 £654,153
-
Net assets
-8.6%
£712,424 £651,113
-
Employees
-7.3%
41 38
-
Operating profit
-311.5%
-£33,549 -£138,066
-
Profit before tax
-508.4%
£15,012 -£61,311
-
Wages
+7%
£712,424 £762,490
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers